” Growing up in Singapore in the 1990s, boys were commonly circumcised before puberty (around eight or nine) – making it seem like a rite of passage into adulthood.

Estamos contigo en todo momento y en todo lugar, brindándote las herramientas para conectar con gente cerca de ti y conseguir las mejores citas.by: Sya Taha I am a Muslim of Malay ethnicity, who was born in Singapore, where Malays are an ethnic and religious minority today, and lived there until I was 24 years old.The Malays, of whom 99 percent are Muslim, are the indigenous people of Singapore and the Malay archipelago.Until the arrival of the British colonizers in the early nineteenth century, this area (which covers what is south Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and south Philippines today) shared many cultural and linguistic similarities.When I was about six years old and attending a kenduri, or ritual feast, for two male cousins who had just been circumcised, I whispered to my mother, “Are girls circumcised too?